Enabling Smart Purge

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Smart Purge is a new feature that integrates the use of the GroupWise Backup
utility with related GroupWise features such as Purge, Archive, and Disk Space Management. Smart Purge ensures that GroupWise items will not be purged from the system prior to a backup process.

Smart Purge relies on the GroupWise Target Service Agent (GWTSA) for
executing a specialized backup process. After you have properly backed up
your GroupWise data, you can set up a restore area so that users can restore
items that have already been emptied from the Trash.

Deselect "Allow purge of items not backed up". When you deselect this option, you are prompted before purging items that have not been backed up.

If you want the GroupWise client to prompt you before purging items that have not been backed up, select "Prompt before purging."

Smart Purge relies on GWTSA to execute the backup process and place the time stamp on the databases that are backed up.

If you use a third-party backup utility and Smart Purge, you must generate the time stamp on the databases.

(see manual for more details on "Using the GW backup time stamp Utility")

Limitations of Smart Purge

When users archive messages, the messages are deleted from the main GroupWise system, even if they have not been backed up.

The GroupWise MAPI message store provider does not enforce Smart Purge. Consequently, the Smart Purge setting has no effect on users using a MAPI client such as Outlook to access their GroupWise mailboxes.

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